I received an email from Thessa Bos and Chantal Louw from The Fringe Arts a while ago telling me what they do and decided to check out their Art Pop Up project at the V and A Waterfront when I was in Cape Town for the SA Blog awards.

I chatted to Thessa Bos (co-owner) when I was there and found out a little more about The Fringe Arts.

The Fringe Arts is a mobile art and design collective showcasing the work of South African designers, illustrators and artists. Currently they have contributions from between 50 and 60 different designers including jewellery designers, furniture reconstructors and ceramicists. All their products are conceptualised and manufactured in South Africa. The Fringe Arts POP UP has no permanent address but rather pops up intermittently in interesting and unused spaces. From November 1st, by request, they will be opening in a permanent location on Spier Wine Estate.

If you're in the Cape Town Area - go and visit The Fringe Arts Pop Up at shop 6 and 7 Alfred Mall at the VandA Waterfront. If you're (unfortunately) not in Cape Town then check out their facebook site here.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Let me give you some background: I am a South African Summer child - deathly allergic to cold weather. The first chilly weather has hit South Korea and it is time for me to take my heater out of storage.

I made the very sad walk over to the big storage room in my building to retrieve the heater that will keep me alive during winter. This heater is (basically) my only life-source in the cold months ahead so you can understand the sign that I had left on it which I had forgotten about:

This heater is extremely big. (it is as big as my chair.) Actually it is like it's own planet.

More like a sun.

Here it is next to my delicious strawberry cushion:

This heater is named Chernobyl. Chernobyl has many friends:

"my friend"

"little creep friend"

"abandoned friend"

"R2D2"

Anyway, I digress, back to Chernobyl. When Chernobyl is switched on (as it is right now) it emits such immense light that not only does it look like the sun, but it is also probably emitting highly radioactive nuclear waves.

In fact I think I can feel the radioactive waves already as I type this and winter hasn't even started...

Could we all please have a moment of silence for the loss of summer in Korea.

*Thank you*

If you are in a warm climate with the sun shining -go outside and EMBRACE it!

I left Cape Town on Monday morning. it was very sad to say goodbye to the family. but it was lovely to be out in South Africa and to see them

look at how beautiful Table Mountain is! and my family is not even enjoying it because they are too sad because i'm in the airplane.

When I got to the boarding gate in Cape Town - i saw a Korean mom and daughter standing behind me. (i checked out the cover of their passports - me = super-sleuth.) I was so excited to see some Koreans that I used my limited Korean skills to converse:

Using my limited Korean I either said:

"Hello! I'm Che! I'm sad, I'm leaving my family"

or:

"Hello! I'm Che! Buy me a drink!"

urgh. i did do a whole bunch of mime-crying and I didn't get any drinks out of them- so i'm guessing they got it. anyway, flight to Johannesburg went ok, but when i landed in Johannesburg i suddenly realised:

I DIDN'T WRAP MY BAGS IN PLASTIC! AND I DIDN'T EVEN PUT ONE OF THOSE CABLE TIE THINGIES ON!

Monday, September 27, 2010

This is just a fun thing they have at the airport here - it's a wood block thing that you can do crayon rubbings on:

it says: "Make your own woodblock print with local icons. A popular medium of art in Singapore during the 1950s and 1960s the woodblock print technique is less seen today. Take this opportunity to create your own images and icons using these hand carved woodblocks designed by Singapore artist Justin Lee. These woodblock images are inspired by popular culture in Singapore"

i used the back of my paper - i'm green like that.

(sorry these are the unedited photos but i don't have time to fix them in photoshop. i have a plane to catch and i don't want to miss it... i've done that once before.... and it wasn't pretty.)

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Che may have overindulged haha - sorry if i was obnoxious to anyone - (in particular the don't party people, {in my defense you were the competition} sorry!) Don't Party is the The Olmeca Edicion Black Best Music Blog winner.

me and my pretty mommy at the awards - perhaps we should have zoomed out. oh well.

I wore my pink dress that is in all of my cartoons. unfortunately it lost it's triangle shape in transit from Korea... and i had people taking pictures of my multi-coloured-highly-fashionable toenails. (thanks to kristi who painted them) haha. i wouldn't trust che's fashion advice. she just does whatever she wants. rather go with Kim Gray - winner of best fashion blog on that....

Little indieBerries won Best Havana Club Rum Design Blog and Best Personal blog.

double whammy!

YIPPEEE!!!

(me: very happy)

but had serious concern about the prospect of this happening:

thankfully, it did not.

It was a really lovely evening and i had a chance to meet some of the very talented bloggers out there. A huge thanks to everyone who was involved in making such an awesome evening.